License costs view helps to cut down the licensing costs by identifying licensed software that are used rarely or never.
The 'Savings status (traffic light)' in the first column of the view quickly shows whether savings are possible or not. The icon is green when savings can be achieved and red when savings are not possible. The grey icon is used when savings cannot be calculated. For example, if there are unlimited amount of licenses in the license pool.
Notice that Miradore does not take currencies into account when calculating the figures for the view.
Identified: Describes the demand of licenses. The figure is formed by summing the identified installations of licensed software and manually allocated licenses.
Allocated: Total amount of manually and automatically allocated licenses.
Available: Total amount of license purchases granting to use this software subtracted by allocated licenses.
Balance: Balance between license purchases and allocated licenses.
Never used: This figure is based on software usage measurement.
Rarely used: This figure is based on software usage measurement.
Total cost: Costs of all license purchases granting to use this software summed up.
Cost per unit: Total cost of license purchases granting to use this software divided by total amount of the transactions.
Potential savings: Savings that might be achieved by uninstalling software that are rarely or never used.
Operations > Software management > License management > License costs
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Available attributes |
Catalog columns |
Allocated, Available, Balance, Cost per unit, Identified, Measure software usage, Never used, Potential savings, Rarely used, Savings status, Savings status (traffic light), Software category, Software name, Software owner, Software platform, Total cost |
Summary dimensions |
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View filters |
Allocated, Available, Balance, Cost per unit, Identified, Measure software usage, Never used, Potential savings, Rarely used, Savings status, Software category, Software name, Software owner, Software platform, Total costs |
Note! this may not be the full list of available attributes
Property |
Description |
Data update interval |
15 minutes |
Data calculation interval |
15 minutes |
Excluded items |
Software items that don't require a license. |
Default filters |
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Task |
Description |
Export |
By default, this task exports all the view contents in the selected file format. However, you can use the check boxes in the view to export selected rows only. You can select rows for the export from one page of the view at a time. The supported file formats for the data export are CSV, Excel, and PDF. In some views, configuration items can be also exported to a group distribution. |
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